[tommytwotone]

Woman hit by the "end" of Jeremy Hunt's "bell":

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/jeremy-hunt-gets-olympic-bell-ringing-spirit

[Jaspersharpe]

That's almost perfect.

Tomorrow's headline: Twitter Collapses Under Weight Of "Bell End" Gags.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

That's almost perfect.

Tomorrow's headline: Twitter Collapses Under Weight Of "Bell End" Gags.

"Health and Safety"

What a fucking arsehole!

[robertostallioni]

http://news.sky.com/story/967158/sheryl-crow-threats-stalker-kept-at-bay

The order requires Sparks to stay 100 yards (90m) away from Crow

part ex-ing the shotgun for a rifle, then.

[SA Chris]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182521/New-Zealand-schoolchildren-encouraged-dress-dead-possums-competition.html

Happens all the time.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Is there an equivalent thread for "not really amusing at all" news stories affecting the news media?




[Source, Western Mail]

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Private Eye on the Twitter Joke Trial:

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Or rather, Private Eye on the Twitter Joke Trial

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1320

[Jaspersharpe]

Amazing. How is that man still in a job?

[DaveC]

I had no idea where to put this so as it came from a newspaper site I thought I'd put it here. Just thought more people than would see it in the Melbourne Age should see it.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/without-hiding-from-horror-we-can-reach-towards-light-20120810-23zwt.html?rand=1344605508857

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Da-da-da dum.

Click Click

They're creepy and they're kook…

Sorry? What's that?

Addams Family?

Oh. OK

The other one then:

Da da-da da daddi-daddi dah -

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

The Hitler statue raises its arm in salute when a ball goes through it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19254556

[Bonjoy]

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
 

[SA Chris]

Doesn't quite sum it up. Terrifying.

[Will Hunt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19260859

When staff went to find the 25-year-old, he hid in a cubicle and tried to answer them in a woman's voice.

 

[andy_e]

Wasn't the 100m bottle thrower from Leeds too?

[mrjonathanr]

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html

The possibilities of meltdown would appear not to be exaggerated.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Briitsh Justice.

It may be slow, moribund, and inflexible.

But it is dogged. it is patient. And it is determined.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/20/asil-nadir-theft-polly-peck-jury?CMP=twt_fd

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Staggeringly offensive and ignorant:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19319240

(This man is on the Science and Technology Committee.)

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Meanwhile, the great and the good of our own elected government isn't afraid to stick in his two penneth on "controversial" subjects:


Galloway on Assange: "It's just bad sexual ettiquette"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19323783

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Oh dear.

How sad.

What a pity.

Never mind.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/22/george-galloway-sacked-holyrood-rape?newsfeed=true

[Comment on Twitter yesterday - why do all the political and Westminster correspondents seem to dislike Galloway so much? - Because they've met him]

[jwi]

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/guardian-offers-bizarre-new-defense-hiring-islamophobic-murder-inciter-joshua

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Hurrah for the Daily Mail!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19369365

Proud of yourselves now, are you after all that scaremongering about the measles vaccinations?

[And that goes double for Ian Hislop and Heather Mills and Private Eye - you should have known better!]

[DaveC]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hello-mum-this-is-going-to-be-hard-for-you-to-read-1753008.html

[robertostallioni]

that gets pretty hard to read.